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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Tehran, Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i shurā-yi Islāmī, 1189 S⁢⁢

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Collection of fourteen works: Arabic and Persian.  Date:

first Ptolemaic work finished on Sunday, the last day (salkh) of Jumādā l-thāniya 1237/​24 March 1822 (p. 94); other works copied in 1237/​1821–2 (pp. 9, 84, 166)

  Or.:

first Ptolemaic work copied at the Imām Riḍā shrine (Arḍ aqdas) in Mashhad (p. 94). First and second work, and presumably the twelfth work, copied by Aḥmad al-Bānī at the same shrine (pp. 9, 53, 166); fourth work copied in Mashhad (p. 84).

  Prov.:

anonymous statement of collation against an exemplar with notes by Muḥammad Bāqir al-Yazdī, dated to the night of Wednesday, 5 Jumādā l-ākhira 1237/​27 February 1822 in Mashhad (p. 53). A Persian statement by Hibat Allāh b. al-ʿAskarī al-Ḥusaynī dated 10 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1289/​8 February 1873 stating that he received the codex from his friend Muḥammad Muhtadī (p. V). A Persian statement by Dāʾud al-Ḥusaynī mentioning ‘the late Sulṭān al-ʿUlamāʾ’, dated 1345/1926-7 (p. V). An unidentified signature (p. V). In 1348/1969-70, the manuscript was part of the private collection of Muḥammad Ḥusayn Miftāḥ in Tehran (Nashriyya). A red library stamp with an old shelfmark (?) ‘8261’ (front doublure). Three large stamps (pp. III, V, 215) and a small one (p. 211) of the Majlis Sinā library. Accession number: ‘17490’ (p. V).

Cod.: different shades of paper, V+215+Ia pp. (paginated with Persian forms of Hindu-Arabic numerals, mostly in the upper outer corners of rectos and versos at the beginning and/or end of each work, with major omissions and irregularities; we provide the page numbers in the table of contents by following the pagination visible on the scans as closely as possible; catchwords). At least three different hands. First hand (pp. 1–80 and 105–166; 20 lines per page): a neat naskh; mostly dotted ductus. Second hand, including the Ptolemaic works, similar to the hand of the collator of the second work (pp. 81–95, 169–178, and a loose slip of paper after p. 35; 20–21 lines per page): a thin nastaʿlīq; undotted ductus with frequent elongated descenders, rare vowel marks or hamzas, no shaddas. Third hand (pp. 201–215; 19–20 lines per page): a sloppy nastaʿlīq; mostly dotted ductus. Diagrams throughout the codex with black lines and red geometrical points; some of the diagrams in the second work provided on glued-in (pp. 27, 35, 41) or loosely bound slips (pp. 45bis, 51bis). Abjad numerals in the first Ptolemaic work not highlighted and in the second one in red. Codex in good condition; stains and smudges (esp. on pp. 81–84); upper left part of p. 201 repaired. Dimensions: 21×15 cm, written area: 15×9 cm. Type III binding.

Cont.: mathematics, astronomy, history, and philosophy. — Index: table of contents (p. III); 1] Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Masākin li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (pp. 1–9); 2] al-Ṭūsī, Kitāb al-Ukar li-Thāwdhūsiyūs (pp. 10–53); 3] Abū Maʿshar, al-Masāʾil (pp. 54–80); 4] al-Ṭūsī, Inʿikās al-shuʿāʿāt (pp. 82–84); 5] extract from Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Shahrzūrī, Tārīkh al-ḥukamāʾ (pp. 85–86); 6] anonymous, Fī maṭāliʿ al-kura al-ḥāmila (pp. 87–91); 7] Ptolemaica (pp. 91–94); 8] Ptolemaica (pp. 94–95); 9] Muhānkird b. Mahryār, Sirr ʿilm Zarādusht al-ḥakīm (pp. 105–129); 10] Māshāʾ Allāh al-Miṣrī, Sahm al-saʿāda (pp. 130–143); 11] anonymous extract titled Sharḥ jadwal tabūr (pp. 143–144); 12] al-Ṭūsī, Taḥrīr Kitāb al-Manāẓir li-Uqlīdis (pp. 145–166); 13] ʿInāyat Allāh b. Muḥammad Zamān Mashhadī Ḥusaynī, Tuḥfa-yi sulaymānī (pp. 169–178, in Persian); 14] anonymous, ʿAqāʾid falāsafat al-Ifranj (pp. 201–215). Blank: pp. II, IV, 96, 179–183, Ia, and possibly unscanned pages between the works.

Bibl.: NashriyyaNashriyya-yi Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 14 vols, Tehran: Kitābkhana-yi Markaz-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, 1961–1977, vol. VII, p. 237 (no. 393); Muḥammad Taqī Dānishpazhūh and Bahāʾ al-Dīn ʿIlmī Anwārī, Fihrist-i kutub-i khaṭṭī-yi Kitābkhāna-yi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Islāmī, shumāra-yi dū (Sinā-yi sābiq), vol. II, Tehran: Kitābhāna-yi Majlis-i Shūrā-yi Islāmī, 1980 (1359 H.S.), pp. 163–164; FankhāMuṣṭafā Dirāyatī, Fihristgān-i nuskhahā-yi khaṭṭī-yi Īrān (Fankhā), 45 vols, Tehran: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of The Islamic Consultative Assembly, 2011–13 1390 does not include the Ptolemaic works, for the other works, see vol. V, p. 68 (no. 14); vol. VII, p. 145 (no. 58), p. 219 (no. 28), p. 229 (no. 34), and p. 477 (no. 3); vol. XVIII, p. 61 (no. 2) and p. 543 (no. 1); vol. XXII, pp. 721–722; vol. XXIX, p. 234, and vol. XXXIII, p. 288 (no. 8).

pp. 91–⁠94

\p. 91\ [title] ليكن ا ب ج د ه الحامل على مركز ز وقطر ا ب وح عليه نقطة خارجة عن المركز وج ح د، د ح ه زاويتان عليها فإن كانتا متساويتين كانت قوس د ه الأوجيّة — \p. 94\ فقد نتبيّن بالاستقراء ولم يلح 〈إ〉لى طريق برهانيّ بعد إلى ذلك واللّه أعلم الموفّق.

= Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt (C.1.18b)

. — Title: Muqaddima nāfiʿa fī maʿrifat al-ikhtilāfāt allatī taḥduthu bi-sabab al-khurūj ʿan al-markaz (p. 91). — Dated scribal colophon. Two marginal and an intralinear correction in the hand of the scribe (p. 93). First diagram provided on a separate sheet of paper bound together with p. 91; the other diagrams in the margins.
pp. 94–⁠95

\p. 94\ [title] ا كوكب الرأس وه كوكب زحل وفي المجسطي لأوّل سنة من ملك أنطونيس طول ا  و م وعرضه ز ك — \p. 95\ فخرج الطول زائدًا على ما أخذه بطلميوس تسع وعشرين دقيقة والعرض زائدًا على ما أخذه بخمس وعشرين دقيقة فعرفنا أنّه قد تساهله فيه وعمل على التقريب دون التحقيق واللّه أعلم.

= Fī Shakl al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (C.1.18c)

. — Title: Fī Tashakkul al-zuhara fī l-faṣl al-thānī min al-maqāla al-ʿāshira min al-Majisṭī (p. 94). — No scribal colophon. A small marginal correction (p. 94bis). The accompanying diagram in the margin.